If you are a Baltic or Nordic artist we could have a sponsored place for you in our Summer We Go Public program happening this summer.

Nes Artist Residency is a contributing member to The Baltic-Nordic Network of Remote Art & Residency Centres. The Network is awarding 1 artist a residency place at Nes for the month of September 2013. You will be provided accomodation and studio space at Nes Artist Residency and be involved in our Summer We Go Public program. Travel, art supplies, and living expenses are to be covered by the artist.

From June to September Nes will host artists interested in public, live art, ephemeral practice and engaged work in contemporary fields of artistic practice. This summer we are stepping up to present new live, performance, engaged and/or temporary public works that create a vibrant artistic community visible in the streets of our fishing village. For more information on the program see the summer blog: http://summeratnes.wordpress.com/

To apply: Submit an application to your country’s Member of the Baltic-Nordic Network of Remote Art & Residency Centres – you can find them listed here:http://remotenet.nidacolony.lt/

In your application include:
-artist CV
-Statement of Intent for your public, live art, or engaged art project to be done in September at Nes Artist Residency for Summer We Go Public.
- 4 images of your work or a link to your website.
- Write in the subject line of your emailed application: “Application to Nes in September via Baltic Nordic Network”.

APPLICATIONS CLOSE MAY 20, 2013.

For questions about the Nes residency or Summer We Go Public please email Melody: nes@neslist.is

Besta kveðja!
Melody

“THE WEIGHT OF MOUNTAINS”

A three month film development residency and film festival challenges filmmakers on the periphery at Nes Artist Residency, Northern Iceland.
www.twom.is

A new program called The Weight of Mountains is set to challenge filmmakers in some of the most remote and difficult locations around the globe. The inaugural program is set in Skagaströnd, northern Iceland at Nes Artist Residency.  Selected filmmakers will participate in a 3 month film development residency over December 2013, January and February 2014.  The program will include 3 professional symposiums and the opportunity for resident filmmakers to create a short film based around the curated theme of ‘Humanity and Environment’ while on location in Skagaströnd.  Each filmmaker will be offered a place in The Weight of Mountains Film Festival to present their film and hold a Directors talk to audiences at the end of February 2014.

The Weight of Mountains is now calling for applicants to be a part of the program. There are positions for filmmakers, symposium guest speakers, and films submitted for the film festival in February. There is a strong focus on creative development and process that encourages filmmakers to respond to ideas of humanity and the sculptural impact of our immediate and influential environments.

“We aim to push filmmakers into new and foreign territory and into difficult environmental conditions, this way we hope to support and  foster opportunity for robust or resilient people in new contemporary filmmaking, hopefully these filmmakers will walk away with new skills in extreme filmmaking that they can carry with them into their future practice” *

The Weight of Mountains will bring together filmmakers from Nordic, Baltic, and international regions. The program straddles a fine line between freedom and structure, encouraging filmmakers to work on any style or direction in their individual practice though they must do it independently, self-sufficiently, and with limited resources while responding to a central theme. The Weight of Mountains will support ideas and development with a structure of symposiums and residency facilitation, curator on-site support, and we predict locals may join in to help the cause.

“Our key focus for Iceland is the character of landscape: the treachery, the drama, the control it has over us. This is no landscape painting, this is 360° immersive space that pushes us on our face from arctic winds and pulls us into ice caves and lava fields amidst snow blizzards and 100km/hr winds. You must respect mother nature here, as she sure as hell does not respect you.”*

The Weight of Mountains is co-founded by Australian filmmaker, Tim Marshall, and Iceland based curator and artist, Melody Woodnutt. It is administered and hosted by their residency partner, Nes Artist Residency. Funding is confirmed from Menningarráð Norðurlands vesta.

For more information see the website: www.twom.is  or email Melody Woodnutt: nes@neslist.is

Applications for the 3 month filmmaker development residency close May 31, 2013.
Applications should be made via www.twom.is

Besta Kveðja,
Melody Woodnutt.

Image courtesy of The Peripheral Society, NES, July 2012.

Nes offers artists working in Iceland the opportunity to attend Kunstlerhaus Lukas for one month in 2013. The selected artist will attend the German residency courtesy of Nes Listamiðstöð’s international exchange programming. Deadline for Icelandic artists to apply is Sunday, February 24.

Nýr styrkur á vegum SÍM og Ness listamiðstöðvar til dvalar í 
Künstlerhaus Lukas í Þýskalandi. 

Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna, Nes listamiðstöð á Skagaströnd og 
Künstlerhaus Lukas hafa gert með sér samstarfssamning til næstu tveggja 
ára um listamannaskipti í gestavinnustofur á Íslandi og í Þýskalandi.

SÍM og Nes auglýsa hér með styrk fyrir listamenn búsetta á Íslandi sem 
áhuga hafa á mánaðardvöl í Kunstlerhaus Lukas listamiðstöðinni í 
Ahrenshoop í Þýskalandi.Styrkurinn felst í niðurfellingu dvalargjalda 
fyrir einn mánuð, en listamennirnir kosta sjálfir ferðir og uppihald. Um 
er að ræða eitt pláss á ári frá hvorri gestavinnustofu. Mögulegir 
dvalartímar eru mars, apíl, júní eða september 2013.

Samkvæmt samstarfssamningnum velur sameiginleg dómnefnd SÍM og Ness 
listamennina úr innsendum umsóknum.

Umsókn sendist í einu skjali á PDF formi á sim@sim.is 
<mailto:sim@sim.is>, eða nes@neslist.is <mailto:nes@neslist.is>og skal 
hún innihalda:

- ferilskrá með netslóð á heimasíðu listamannsins.

- Stutt markmið með listsköpun og þeim þáttum sem áhersla verður lögð á 
meðan á dvölinni í
Þýskalandi stendur.

- Hvaða mánuður af ofangreindum kemur helst til greina vegna dvalarinnar 
og hvað sé annað val.

- 4 jpeg myndir af listaverkum umsækjanda.

*Umsóknir sendist í síðasta lagi fyrir sunnudaginn 24. febrúar n.k.*

Nánari upplýsingar um Kunstlerhaus Lukas er að finna hér 
<http://www.kuenstlerhaus-lukas.de/englisch/index1.php?K%FCnstlerhaus_Lukas>

Thank you to all who submitted their applications to our Summer We Go Public call out. Applications have now closed. Artists may continue to submit applications for Autumn months and beyond. Please check back for our winter programming announcement; it involves film. And we are very excited about that.

As a show of our appreciation to our summer applicants, we want to present this photo of a troll, posing as a rock, in winter.

Besta kveðja,
Melody

Troll fingers posing as a rocky cliff, emerging from snow blanket.

Image courtesy of Anya Rosen

Nes is calling for artists to take to the streets, to be engaged, to engage, to connect with site and people and place. We want urban/street artists, public artists, performance/live artists, interdisciplinary artists, musicians, and/or contemporary artists that investigate public space, community, permanance/impermanance/ephemerality, and work that breaks down the 4th wall and finds something special, that connects. We want to create a summer of artful streets in Skagaströnd.

The summer months in Iceland are an excellent opportunity for artists to approach the environment, walls, streets, or people outside and in full view.  The sun comes out, warmth hits our faces, and we bask in the 24 hour daylight. Out there. Sunlight peeking through our dresses at midnight. People in the street. Art creating pause and play. Intersection and interaction.

We are going public.

We are calling for applications for the months of June, July, August, and September 2013. These months are reserved now for artists that are interested in working with ideas of public, private, ephemerality, permanence, performance/liveness, urban art, or intervention works.  We are going public, and we are visible. We.Are.Here.

***Please do not apply for June, July,  August. and/or September if your work does not consider any of the above ideas. Your application will not be considered for these months. We encourage artists outside this theme to apply outside of these months. Artists already accepted to June, July, August, or September will still be accepted.

Applications for JUNE, JULY, AUGUST and SEPTEMBER will close January 15th.

Successful applicants will be notified by February 1st. Certain exemplary applications may be notified immediately upon submission.

APPLY HERE

Nes is interested in the advancement of contemporary and inter-disciplinary art directions. So we are making a pod cast about it.

October 13, as part of the North West Iceland Cultural Weekend, Nes will host an open discussion around the idea of inter-disciplinary practice, how we establish and understand this notion, what it means, how it works, and how it connects outside of art itself.

We are interested in the direction of interdisciplinary practice and the idea of collaboration and progression through research, process, and inter-connection between different fields.

We are interested to find the place in which things sit, how we thus engage, and furthermore extend into how they merge or become integrated as part of the larger design.

We are interested in the role artists play within a greater scope or the way that arts on the periphery, in remote areas, or outside of “things” becomes tangible and connected.

Join us with a cup of tea at the Nes Studios this Saturday October 13 to be a part of the discussion.  Podcast details will follow the event. Check back with us to get the link.

Besta kveðja,

Melody.

Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell

YOU ARE HERE.

We welcome you to start at Nes, Fjörubraut 8, Skagaströnd.

We will be open from 11:00 – 18:00, collect your art map and explore!!

Events at other places going until 21:00!

Artists, chefs, and locals are finding new ways to engage with Skagaströnd.  FIND OUT MORE ON OUR WEBSITE - HERE.

S.E.A.S – Site Exploratory Arts, Skagaströnd.
we.are.here.

Icelandic Winter Residency – Warmer than Berlin.

Kántrýdagar á Skagaströnd!!

17,18,19 Ágúst!

Nes is excited about Kántrýdagar! With events like the flooding of the football field for muddy games and live music over the expanse of the town, we thought Nes would chip in and present the Freezer Film Retrospective, a retrospective of films made by artists during their time, or inspired by their time in Skagaströnd.

For the open access films (those on youtube or vimeo) we can send you a copy of the film program. Films that are private or still in the festival circuit will not be included in this pdf.  To grab a copy so you can have your own Skagaströnd Film Screening simply email Melody: nes@neslist.is

Pot-Luck Dinner í kvöld!

Nes Listamiðstöð is hosting our monthly pot-luck dinner, locals and artists will come together to share good food, stories, and good company!

Kl. 19:00 – Nes Fjörubraut 8 - Mánadagur 13 Ágúst.

Velkomin!!